Jeffrey Schaller

Biography

Jeff Schaller is a Full Professor of Operations Management at Eastern. He held various Operations Management positions with the Singer Company, Becton Dickinson Company, and Cooper Industries. He has published articles in The Annals of Operations Research, International Journal of Production Research, European Journal of Operational Research, Computers and Industrial Engineering, Target Magazine, and The Journal of Enterprise Resource Management. Dr. Schaller belongs to the Decision Science Institute, INFORMS, APICS, and AME.

Research Interests

• Sequencing and Scheduling
• Lean Production
• Cellular Manufacturing

Teaching Interests

• Operations Management
• Supply Chain Management
• Project Management

Publications

Schaller, J.E. and J.M. Valente, “Heuristics for scheduling jobs in a permutation flow shop to minimize total earliness with unforced idle time allowed,” Expert Systems with Applications, vol. 119, pp., vol. 119, pp. 76 – 386, 2019.

Schaller, J.E. and J.M.S Valente, “Efficient heuristics for minimizing weighted sum of squared tardiness on identical parallel machines,” Computers and Industrial Engineering, vol. 119, pp. 146 – 156, 2018

Gonçalves T.C., J.M.S. Valente, and J.E. Schaller, “Metaheuristics for the Single Machine Weighted Quadratic Tardiness Scheduling Problem,” Computers and Operations Research, 2016.

Schaller, J. E., “Minimizing Total Tardiness for Scheduling Identical Parallel Machines with Family Setups,” Computers & Industrial Engineering vol. 72, p. 274, 2014.

Schaller, J.E. and J.M. Valente, “An evaluation of heuristics for scheduling a non-delay permutation flow shop with family setups to minimize total earliness and tardiness,” Journal of the Operational Research Society, vol. 64, no. 6, p. 805, 2013.